Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the U. S. State Department's famed "Trouble Shooter," George Charles Hanson, sailed from Manhattan to become U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Ethiopia. As a bon voyage gift last week one of his friends gave him L. M. Nesbitt's book on Ethiopia called Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME. March 25). "This book," beamed Shooter Hanson, "whets my interest...
Most big shopkeepers admit that a "loss leader" is sometimes good business. Customers attracted to a store by the cut-rate price of one product linger to buy other products on which the store can make a profit. But "loss leaders" become a large hole in the profit bucket when customers throng a store to buy only the "loss leader" and nothing else. Forcefully last week was this axiom brought home to scores of cut-rate storekeepers in Los Angeles, home of some of the fiercest price wars...
...hand (pistol); in Emporia. When peace officers came to his summer cabin last week to take him to the penitentiary, Mrs. Finney's plea for "one more hour" was granted. The officers returned to find Warren Finney sprawled on the floor, a bullet hole through both temples, a mirror propped before...
...world, arriving to play a series of exhibition matches to exploit Wanamaker's golf supplies. At the Women's National Golf & Tennis Club, Miss Wethered proved that she was thoroughly off her game by shooting a 78, which gave her and Johnny Dawson an 18-hole match-play tie against Gene Sarazen and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Two days later Miss Wethered and Mrs. Vare, with a handicap of six strokes, lost to Sarazen and Jess Sweetser...
...Women's Open four times, last in 1929, when she retired because she found women's competition tedious. She beat Glenna Collett Vare the three times they played each other-once at St. Andrews in the British final when Glenna Collett, with 34 for the first nine holes, was 6 up at the 12th. Joyce Wethered played 18 consecutive holes in 73, had a lead of 4 up at the 2 27th hole. For years she played most of her golf against her famed Brother Roger, who tied for the British Open in 1921, won the British Amateur...